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Curlew Moon
Colwell Mary 332 ₪Curlews are Britain’s largest wading bird, known for their evocative calls which embody wild places; they provoke a range of emotions that many have expressed in poetry, art and music.A bird stands alone on the edge of a mudflat. Its silhouette is unmistakable. A plump body sits atop stilty legs. The long neck arcs into a small head, which tapers further into a long curved bill. The smooth, convex outlines of this curlew are alluring. They touch some ancestral liking we all have for shapes that are round and smooth.Over the last 20 years numbers in the UK have halved; the Eurasian Curlew is one of our most endangered birds. With a quarter of the world population breeding in the UK and Ireland, this is nothing short of a disaster. The curlew is showing all the signs of being the next Great Auk.In Curlew Moon, Mary Colwell takes us on a 500-mile journey on foot from the west coast of Ireland to the east coast of England, to discover what is happening to this beautiful and much-loved bird. She sets off in early spring when the birds are arriving on their breeding grounds, watches them nesting in the hills of Wales and walks through England when the young are hatching. She finishes her walk on the coast of Lincolnshire when the fledglings are trying out their wings. This is also the place many curlews will return to for the winter months.This evocative book chronicles Colwell’s impressive journey, with beautiful illustrations by Jessica Holm, weaving a gentle tale of discovery interspersed with the natural history of this iconic bird that has fascinated us for millennia – and so desperately needs our help.
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Endless Forms. The Secret World of Wasps
Sumner Seirian 885 ₪There may be no insect with a worse reputation than the wasp, and none guarding so many undiscovered wonders.Where bees and ants have long been the darlings of the insect world, wasps are much older, cleverer and more diverse. They are the bee’s evolutionary ancestors – flying 100 million years earlier – and today they are just as essential for the survival of our environment. A bee, ecologist Professor Seirian Sumner argues, is just a wasp that has forgotten how to hunt.For readers of Entangled Life, Other Minds and The Gospel of Eels, this is a book to upturn your expectations about one overlooked animal and the wider architecture of our natural world.With endless surprises, this book might teach you about the wasps that spend their entire lives sealed inside a fig, about stinging wasps, about parasitic wasps, about wasps that turn cockroaches into living zombies, about how wasps taught us to make paper.It offers up a maligned insect in all its diverse, unexpected splendour; as both predator and pollinator, the wasp is an essential pest controller worldwide. Inside their sophisticated social worlds is the best model we have for the earth’s major evolutionary transitions. In their understudied biology are clues to progressing medicine, including a possible cure for cancer.The closer you look at these spurned, winged insects – both custodians and bouncers of our planet – the more you see. Their secrets have so far gone mostly untapped, but the potential of the wasp is endless.
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How to Grow a Human. Reprogramming Cells and Redes
Ball Philip 442 ₪A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a ‘self’ in the face of new scientific developments in genetic editing, cloning and neural downloading.After seeing his own cells used to grow clumps of new neurons – essentially mini-brains – Philip Ball begins to examine the concepts of identity and consciousness. Delving into humanity’s deep evolutionary past to look at how complex creatures like us emerged from single-celled life, he offers a new perspective on how humans think about ourselves.In an age when we are increasingly encouraged to regard the ‘self’ as an abstract sequence of genetic information, or as a pattern of neural activity that might be ‘downloaded’ to a computer, he return us to the body – to flesh and blood – and anchors a conception of personhood in this unique and ephemeral mortal coil. How to Build a Human brings us back to ourselves – but in doing so, it challenges old preconceptions and values. It asks us to rethink how we exist in the world.
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In the Thick of It. The Private Diaries of a Minis
Duncan Alan 487 ₪As Minister of State at the Foreign Office, Alan Duncan was once described as Boris Johnson’s ‘pooper-scooper’. For two years, he deputised for the then Foreign Secretary, now Prime Minister. Few are more attuned to Boris’s strengths and weaknesses as a minister and his suitability for high office than the man who helped clear up his mistakes.Riotously candid, these diaries cover the most turbulent period in recent British political history – from the eve of the referendum in 2016 to the UK’s eventual exit from the EU. As two prime ministers fall, two general elections unfold and a no-confidence vote is survived, Duncan records a treasure-trove of insider gossip, giving biting and often hilarious accounts of petty rivalries, poor decision-making, big egos, and big crises.Nothing escapes Alan’s acerbic gaze. Across these unfiltered daily entries, he builds a revealing and often profound picture of UK politics and personalities. A rich seam of high politics and low intrigue, this is an account from deep inside the engine room of power.
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Labrador. The Story of the Worlds Favourite Dog’
Fogle Ben 332 ₪A social history of Labradors, and how they have become the world’s most beloved dogs, by writer, presenter and long-time dog lover Ben Fogle.Labradors are the most popular breed of dog in the world. Not only a great family companion, they also excel at hunting, tracking, retrieving, guiding and rescuing. But where did the breed originally come from? How did it develop? When did black, yellow and chocolate Labradors first appear? Did they really all come from Labrador in Canada and are they really all related to just one dog?In this first history of the Labrador, Ben Fogle goes in search of what makes Labradors so special. Their extraordinary companionship, intelligence, work ethic and loyalty is captured by Ben as he weaves the story of the breed into his own story of his beloved Inca.Ben visits Canada, discovers hair-raising stories of early Labrador exploits and uncovers stories of RNIB Labradors and Labradors at war, Labradors as working dogs and every other manifestation of the Labrador’s character. Exploring their origin, early characteristics, their use as gun dogs, as therapy dogs, as police dogs, as search and rescue dogs and last – and absolutely not least – as family pets, Ben tells the story of a dog breed which has captured our imagination and love for hundreds of years.
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Exotic Vetting
Pizzi Romain 317 ₪Книга «Exotic Vetting». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2023. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 408. Автор: Pizzi Romain. Стандарт: 10. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Inspire. Life Lessons from the Wilderness
Fogle Ben 221 ₪Книга «Inspire. Life Lessons from the Wilderness». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2020. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 276. Автор: Fogle Ben. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Mad about Shakespeare. From Classroom to Theatre
Bate Jonathan 577 ₪Книга «Mad about Shakespeare. From Classroom to Theatre». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Твердый переплет. Количество страниц: 304. Автор: Bate Jonathan. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Operation Pedestal. The Fleet that Battled to Malt
Hastings Max 376 ₪Книга «Operation Pedestal. The Fleet that Battled to Malt». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2021. Переплет: Твердый переплет. Количество страниц: 428. Автор: Hastings Max. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Race For Tomorrow.A Journey Through the Front Line
Mundy Simon 234 ₪Книга «Race For Tomorrow.A Journey Through the Front Line». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 396. Автор: Mundy Simon. Стандарт: 10. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Self-Confidence. 10 Lessons for Life in the Age of
Pepin Charles 199 ₪Книга «Self-Confidence. 10 Lessons for Life in the Age of». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2020. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 216. Автор: Pepin Charles. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Soldiers. Great Stories of War and Peace
553 ₪Книга «Soldiers. Great Stories of War and Peace». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2021. Переплет: Твердый переплет. Количество страниц: 518. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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The Art of Disagreeing Well. How Debate Teaches Us
Bo Seo 420 ₪Книга «The Art of Disagreeing Well. How Debate Teaches Us». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Твердый переплет. Количество страниц: 342. Автор: Bo Seo. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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The Betrayal of Anne Frank
Sullivan Rosemary 422 ₪Книга «The Betrayal of Anne Frank». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2020. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 404. Автор: Sullivan Rosemary. Стандарт: 10. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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The Frayed Atlantic Edge. A Historians Journey’
Gange David 332 ₪Книга «The Frayed Atlantic Edge. A Historians Journey’». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2020. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 388. Автор: Gange David. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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The Heartbeat of Trees
Wohlleben Peter 221 ₪Книга «The Heartbeat of Trees». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2021. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 258. Автор: Wohlleben Peter. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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The Wolf Within. The Astonishing Evolution
Sykes Bryan 332 ₪Книга «The Wolf Within. The Astonishing Evolution». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2019. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 290. Автор: Sykes Bryan. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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We Were Dreamers. An Immigrant Superhero Origin St
Liu Simu 664 ₪Книга «We Were Dreamers. An Immigrant Superhero Origin St». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Твердый переплет. Количество страниц: 289. Автор: Liu Simu. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Woodlands
Rackham Oliver 288 ₪Книга «Woodlands». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2012. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 604. Автор: Rackham Oliver. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Wounds. A Memoir of War and Love
Keane Fergal 465 ₪Книга «Wounds. A Memoir of War and Love». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2018. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 355. Автор: Keane Fergal. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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A Curious Boy. The Making of a Scientist
Fortey Richard 221 ₪What makes a scientist?Charming, funny and wise, in this memoir Richard Fortey shows how restless curiosity about the natural world led him to become a leading scientist and writer, with adventures and misadventures along the way.From a garden shed laboratory where he manufactured the greatest stink in the world to a tent high in the Arctic in pursuit of fossils, this is a story of obsession and love of nature, flavoured with the peculiarities and restrictions of post-war Britain. Fortey tells the story of following his father down riverbanks to fish for trout, and also of his father’s shocking death. He unfolds his early passions — fungi, ammonite hunting and eyeing up bird’s eggs. He evokes with warmth and wit how the natural world started out as his playground and refuge, then became his life’s work.Much more than a story about science alone, this memoir gives an unforgettable portrait of a young, curious mind, and shows how luck and enthusiasm can create a special life.
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Pacific. The Ocean of the Future
Winchester Simon 431 ₪Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world’s largest body of water, and – in matters economic, political and military – the ocean of the future.The Pacific is a world of tsunamis and Magellan, of the Bounty mutiny and the Boeing Company. It is the stuff of the towering Captain Cook and his wide-ranging network of exploring voyages, Robert Louis Stevenson and Admiral Halsey. It is the place of Paul Gauguin and the explosion of the largest-ever American atomic bomb, on Bikini atoll, in 1951. It has an astonishing recent past, an uncertain present and a hugely important future.The ocean and its peoples are the new lifeblood, fizz and thrill of America – which draws so many of its minds and so much of its manners from the sea – while the inexorable rise of the ancient center of the world, China, is a fixating fascination. The presence of rogue states – North Korea most notoriously today – suggest that the focus of the responsible world is shifting away from the conventional post-war obsessions with Europe and the Middle East, and towards a new set of urgencies. Navigating the newly evolving patterns of commerce and trade, the world’s most violent weather and the fascinating histories, problems and potentials of the many Pacific states, Simon Winchester’s thrilling journey is a grand depiction of the future ocean.
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Through The Looking Glass
Carroll Lewis 222 ₪Книга «Through The Looking Glass». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2017. Серия: Collins Classics. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 150. Автор: Carroll Lewis. Стандарт: 10. Возрастная категория: 16+. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Treasure Island
Stevenson Robert Louis 296 ₪Книга «Treasure Island». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2017. Серия: Collins Classics. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 238. Автор: Stevenson Robert Louis. Стандарт: 10. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Restoring the Wild. Rewilding Our Skies, Woods and
Dennis Roy 243 ₪The distinctive white-tailed sea eagle was driven to extinction in Britain more than 200 years ago, but this immense predator is making a return to our skies, thanks to Roy Dennis, an ornithologist, conservationist and arguably the driving force behind the UK’s reintroduction agenda.Roy was instrumental in returning the Osprey, red kite and golden eagle to the British Isles, but the road to reintroduction isn’t an easy one. In what will surely be the seminal book on British reintroductions, Roy details the painstaking process of returning the Goldeneye to Scotland, one duckling at a time, the die-hard determination needed to make a dazzling success of the red kite reintroduction and the leap of faith we will all need to make to accept sharing our forests and skies with large carnivores again. He also illustrates all that we have to gain by restoring our ecosystems to balance.Filled with a lifetime’s worth of stories from the front lines of conservation, Reintroduction offers an eye-opening insight into the complexities of reintroducing extinct animals to Britain. It’s also an intimate portrait of these apex predators and a reminder of why we need them.
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Snow Widows. Scotts Fatal Antarctic Expedition Th’
MacInnes Katherine 1,107 ₪The men of Captain Scott’s Polar Party were heroes of their age, enduring tremendous hardships to further the reputation of the Empire they served by reaching the South Pole. But they were also husbands, fathers, sons and brothers.For the first time, the story of the race for the South Pole is told from the perspective of the women whose lives would be forever changed by it, five women who offer a window into a lost age and a revealing insight into the thoughts and feelings of the five heroes.Kathleen Scott, the fierce young wife of the expedition leader, campaigned relentlessly for Scott’s reputation, but did her ambition for glory drive her husband to take unnecessary risks? Oriana Wilson, a true help-mate and partner to the expedition’s doctor, was a scientific mind in her own right and understood more than most what the men faced in Antarctica. Emily Bowers was a fervent proponent of Empire, having spent much of her life as a missionary teacher in the colonies. The indomitable Caroline Oates was the very picture of decorum and everything an Edwardian woman aspired to be, but she refused all invitations to celebrate her son Laurie’s noble sacrifice. Lois Evans led a harder life than the other women, constantly on the edge of poverty and forced to endure the media’s classist assertions that her husband Taff, the sole ‘Jack Tar’ in a band of officers, must have been responsible for the party’s downfall. Her story, brought to light through new archival research, is shared here for the first time.In a gripping and remarkable feat of historical reconstruction, Katherine MacInnes vividly depicts the lives, loves and losses of five women shaped by the unrelenting culture of Empire and forced into the public eye by tragedy. It also reveals the five heroes, not as the caricatures of legend, but as the real people they were.
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Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the L’
Carroll Lewis 232 ₪Книга «Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the L’». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2022. Серия: Collins Classics. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 282. Автор: Carroll Lewis. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Animal Farm
Orwell George 177 ₪Животным с фермы мистера Джонса с хозяином не повезло: он ленивый пьяница, не заботящийся об их благополучии и регулярно забывающий их кормить. Однажды их терпение подходит к концу и, вдохновившись речами недавно почившего старого и умудрённого жизнью борова, они решаются на восстание.У зверей получается прогнать фермера, и поначалу они надеются, что у них получится построить светлое будущее. Будущее без изнурительного труда и скотобоен. Будущее, в котором все четвероногие (или крылатые) создания будут наслаждаться свободой, равенством и братством. Но потихоньку начинает зарождаться новая элита, извращающая идеалы революции. На смену одному тирану приходит другой, и совсем скоро оказывается, что все животные равны, но некоторые равнее других…Повесть-притча Джорджа Оруэлла «Скотный двор – полная едкой сатиры аллегория Советского Союза при Сталине. Поначалу её отказывались публиковать, ведь писатель закончил работу над ней в 1944 году, когда Британия и СССР были союзниками. Да и после выхода «Скотного двора» в печать в 1945 году не все критики остались от него в восторге. Но со временем эта удостоенная премии «Хьюго» история о развращающем влиянии власти и смертельной опасности демагогии добилась статуса нестареющей классики. Неудивительно: данная повесть – один из самых ярких примеров литературного мастерства и сатирического таланта Джорджа Оруэлла.«Скотный двор» и роман «1984» – самые известные его произведения.Повесть была неоднократно экранизирована: по ней был снят одноимённый телефильм, а также полнометражный мультфильм «Звероферма».Издательство HarperCollins с гордостью представляет серию известных и значимых произведений классической литературы.Книга на английском языке.
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Jane Eyre
Bronte Charlotte 232 ₪Книга «Jane Eyre». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2016. Серия: Collins Classics. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 462. Автор: Bronte Charlotte. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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The Waves
Woolf Virginia 354 ₪Книга «The Waves». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2022. Серия: Collins Classics. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 220. Автор: Woolf Virginia. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Alices Adventures in Wonderland’
Carroll Lewis 198 ₪‘Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”’So begins the tale of Alice, who follows a curious White Rabbit down a hole and falls into Wonderland, a fantastical place where nothing is quite as it seems: animals talk, nonsensical characters confuse, Mad Hatters throw tea parties and the Queen plays croquet. Alice’s attempts to find her way home become increasingly bizarre, infuriating and amazing in turn.A beloved classic, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has continued to delight readers, young and old, for over 150 years.
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Cops and Robbers. The Story of the British Police
Anstead Ant 349 ₪TV presenter and all-round car nut Ant Anstead takes the reader on a journey that mirrors the development of the motor car itself from a stuttering 20mph annoyance that scared everyone’s horses to 150mph pursuits with aerial support and sophisticated electronic tracking.The British Police Force’s relationship with the car started by chasing after pioneer speeding motorists on bicycles. As speed restrictions eased in the early twentieth century and car ownership increased, the police embraced the car. Criminals were stealing cars to sell on or to use as getaway vehicles and the police needed to stay ahead, or at least only one step behind. The arms race for speed, which culminated in the police acquiring high-speed pursuit vehicles such as Subaru Impreza Turbos, had begun.Since then the car has become essential to everyday life. Deep down everyone loves a police car. Countless enthusiasts collect models in different liveries and legendary police cars become part of the nation’s shared consciousness.Ant Anstead spent the first six years of his working life as a cop. He was part of the armed response team, one of the force’s most elite units. In this fascinating new history of the British police car, Ant looks at the classic cars, from the Met’s Wolseleys to the Senator, the motorway patrol car officers loved most, via unusual and unexpected police vehicles such as the Arial Atom. It’s a must-read for car enthusiasts, social historians and anyone who loves a good car chase, Cops and Robbers is a rip-roaring celebration of the police car and the men and women who drive them.
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Crucible of Hell. Okinawa. The Last Great Battle o
David Saul 553 ₪From award-winning historian Saul David, an action-packed and powerful new narrative of the Battle of Okinawa — the last great clash of the Second World War, and one that had profound consequences for the modern world.For eighty-three blood-soaked days, the fighting on the island of Okinawa plumbed depths of savagery as bad as anything seen on the Eastern Front. When it was over, almost a quarter of a million people had lost their lives, making it by far the bloodiest US battle of the Pacific. In Okinawa, the death toll included thousands of civilians lost to mass suicide, convinced by Japanese propaganda that they would otherwise be raped and murdered by the enemy. On the US side, David argues that the horror of the battle ultimately determined President Truman’s choice to use atomic bombs in August 1945.It is a brutal, heart-rending story, and one David tells with masterly attention to detail: the cramped cockpit of a kamikaze plane, the claustrophobic gun turret of a warship under attack, and a half-submerged foxhole amidst the squalor and battle detritus. The narrative follows generals, presidents and emperors, as well as the humbler experiences of ordinary servicemen and families on both sides, and the Okinawan civilians who were caught so tragically between the warring parties.Using graphic eyewitness accounts and declassified documents from archives in three continents, Saul David illuminates a shocking chapter of history that is too often missing from Western-centric narratives of the Second World War.
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End Game. Tipping Point for Planet Earth?
Barnosky Anthony D.; Hadly Elizabeth A. 221 ₪What happens when vast population growth endangers the world’s food supplies? Or our water? Our energy needs, climate, or environment? Or the planet’s biodiversity? What happens if these all become critical at once? Just what is our future?In End Game, world-renowned scientists Anthony Barnosky and Elizabeth Hadly explain the growing threats to humanity as the planet edges towards a resource war for remaining space, food, oil and water. And as they show, these wars are not the nightmares of a dystopian future but are already happening today. They explore the origins of Ebola in densely populated areas of south-eastern Guinea, witness raging fires in Yellowstone and Colorado and explain how drought-induced food shortages are already causing problems in the Sudan, Gaza Strip and Iraq. Finally, they ask: at what point will inaction become the break-up of the intricate workings of the global society?The planet is in danger now, but the solutions, as Barnosky and Hadly show, are still available. We still have the chance to avoid the tipping point and to make the future better. But this window of opportunity is closing fast and will shut within ten-to-twenty years. End Game is the call we need.
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Enough. The Violence Against Women and How to End
Johnson Harriet 288 ₪This is a book that calls time on the endless tide of violence against women and the failures of our criminal justice system to respond.From barrister Harriet Johnson, Enough lays bare the appalling status quo of abuse against women in our society, offering an irrefutable case for why change is needed in policing and justice. Most vitally, it also gives a manifesto for how to get there.With expertise, clear-sightedness and appropriate fury, this book helps us see where women are suffering – from homicide to domestic abuse to street harassment. It exposes the ways the criminal justice system lets women down – from officers failing to properly investigate to a lack of consequences when police behaviour is unacceptable, to backlogged courts and the realities of convincing a jury.Addressing misogyny is to everyone’s benefit and the answers aren’t simple. Enough is the call to arms we can – and must – all get behind.
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I Used to Live Here Once. The Haunted Life of Jean
Seymour Miranda 815 ₪An intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea.An obsessive and troubled genius, Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling and unnerving writers of the twentieth century. Memories of a conflicted Caribbean childhood haunt the four fictions that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England. Rhys’s experiences of heartbreak, poverty, notoriety, breakdowns and even imprisonment all became grist for her writing, forming an iconic ‘Rhys woman’ whose personality — vulnerable, witty, watchful and angry — was often mistaken, and still is, for a self-portrait.Many details of Rhys’s life emerge from her memoir, Smile Please and the stories she wrote throughout her long and challenging career. But it’s a shock to discover that no biographer — until now — has researched the crucial seventeen years that Rhys spent living on the remote Caribbean island of Dominica; the island which haunted Rhys’s mind and her work for the rest of her life.Luminous and penetrating, Seymour’s biography reveals a proud and fiercely independent artist, one who experienced tragedy and extreme poverty, alcohol and drug dependency, romantic and sexual turmoil — and yet was never a victim. I Used to Live Here Once enables one of our most excitingly intuitive biographers to uncover the hidden truth about a fascinatingly elusive woman. The figure who emerges for Seymour is powerful, cultured, self-mocking, self-absorbed, unpredictable and often darkly funny. Persuasive, surprising and compassionate, this unforgettable biography brings Jean Rhys to life as never before.
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Orlando
Woolf Virginia 301 ₪‘Orlando had become a woman – there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been. The change of sex, though it altered their future, did nothing whatever to alter their identity.’Boisterous and defiant, Virginia Woolf’s queer classic subverts restraints of genre, time and gender. Traversing the complexities of human emotion and society’s obsession with conformity, the wild adventures of Woolf’s gender fluid hero begin in Elizabethan England and end in 1928 – yet Orlando ages just 36 years.A satirical romp that spans over three hundred years of history, Woolf’s fantastical biography was decades ahead of its time.
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In the Shadow of Vesuvius. A Life of Pliny
Dunn Daisy 442 ₪In a dazzling, lively new literary biography, Daisy Dunn weaves together the lives of two Roman greats: Pliny the Elder, author of Natural History, and his nephew Pliny the Younger, who inherited his uncle’s notebooks and intellectual legacy.Breathing vivid life back into the Plinys, Daisy Dunn charts the extraordinary lives of two outstanding minds and their lasting legacy on the world.
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Inventory of a Life Mislaid. An Unreliable Memoir
Warner Marina 243 ₪Inventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warner’s beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her husband, an English colonel, is still away in the war in the East as she begins to learn how to be Mrs Esmond Warner, an Englishwoman.With diamond rings on her fingers and brogues on her feet, Ilia steps fearlessly into the world of cricket and riding. But, without prospect of work in a bleak, war-ravaged England, Esmond remembers the glorious ease of Cairo during his periods of leave from the desert campaign. There, they start a bookshop, a branch of W. H. Smith’s. But growing resistance to foreign interests, especially British, erupts in the 1952 uprising, and the Cairo Fire burns the city clean.Evocative and imaginative, at once historical and speculative, this memoir powerfully resurrects the fraught union and unrequited hopes of Warner’s parents. Memory intertwines richly with myth, the river Lethe feeling as real as the Nile. Vivid recollections of Cairo swirl with ever-present dreams of a city where Warner’s parents, friends and associates are still restlessly wandering.
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Islands of Abandonment. Life in the Post-Human Lan
Flyn Cal 236 ₪This is a book about abandoned places: ghost towns and exclusion zones, no man’s lands and fortress islands – and what happens when nature is allowed to reclaim its place.In Chernobyl, following the nuclear disaster, only a handful of people returned to their dangerously irradiated homes. On an uninhabited Scottish island, feral cattle live entirely wild. In Detroit, once America’s fourth-largest city, entire streets of houses are falling in on themselves, looters slipping through otherwise silent neighbourhoods.This book explores the extraordinary places where humans no longer live – or survive in tiny, precarious numbers – to give us a possible glimpse of what happens when mankind’s impact on nature is forced to stop. From Tanzanian mountains to the volcanic Caribbean, the forbidden areas of France to the mining regions of Scotland, Flyn brings together some of the most desolate, eerie, ravaged and polluted areas in the world – and shows how, against all odds, they offer our best opportunities for environmental recovery.By turns haunted and hopeful, this luminously written world study is pinned together with profound insight and new ecological discoveries that together map an answer to the big questions: what happens after we’re gone, and how far can our damage to nature be undone?
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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial. The Reporters Who
Cohen Deborah 553 ₪They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s, they roamed across a war-ravaged world, sometimes perched atop mules on wooden saddles, sometimes gliding through countries in the splendour of a first-class sleeper car. While empires collapsed and fledgling democracies faltered, they chased deposed empresses, international financiers and Balkan gunrunners, then knocked back doubles late into the night.Last Call at the Hotel Imperial is the extraordinary story of John Gunther, H.R. Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson: a close-knit band of wildly famous American reporters who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism.In those tumultuous years, they landed exclusive interviews with Hitler, Franco and Mussolini who sought to persuade them of fascism’s inevitable triumph. Nehru and Gandhi also courted them, seeking American allies against British imperialism. Churchill saw them as his best shot at convincing a reluctant America to join the war against Hitler.They committed themselves to the cause of freedom: fiercely and with all its hazards. They argued about love, war, sex, death and everything in between, and they wrote it all down. The fault lines that ran through a crumbling world, they would find, ran through their own marriages and friendships, too.Told with the immediacy of a conversation overheard, this revelatory book captures how the global upheavals of the twentieth century felt to live through up close.
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Letters to the Earth.Writing to a Planet in Crisis
Thompson Emma 221 ₪A profound, powerful and moving collection of 100 letters from around the world responding to the climate crisis, introduced by Emma Thompson and lovingly illustrated by CILIP award winner Jackie Morris.How can we begin to talk about what is happening to the world? How can we explain to our children, and to ourselves, what the future of our planet might look and feel like?Letters to the Earthis the beginning of a new conversation. One that attempts to answer some of these questions by listening to the voices of parents and children; politicians and poets; songwriters and scientists. Gathering together over 100 letters written in response to the climate emergency, each entry begins to give language to the unspeakable, and shows how our collective power is present when we are ready to slow down and listen to each other.It’s natural to feel worried or concerned about what the future of the earth holds. These letters are an opportunity to reflect on our connection to the planet and each other in times of crisis. They are also an opportunity to act and respond to this crisis. To put pen to paper and make your voice heard.Includes contributions from activist Yoko Ono, actor Mark Rylance, poet Kate Tempest, author Laline Paull, illustrator of The Lost Words Jackie Morris, novelist Anna Hope, environmental writer Jay Griffiths Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, Booker prize Winning author Ben Okri and actor Freya Mavor.
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A Greedy Man in a Hungry World
Rayner Jay 127 ₪Книга «A Greedy Man in a Hungry World». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2014. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 290. Автор: Rayner Jay. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Aurora. In Search of the Northern Lights
Windridge Melanie 288 ₪Книга «Aurora. In Search of the Northern Lights». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2017. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 310. Автор: Windridge Melanie. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Autonomy. The Quest to Build the Driverless Car
Burns Lawrence 221 ₪Книга «Autonomy. The Quest to Build the Driverless Car». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2019. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 356. Автор: Burns Lawrence. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Beak, Tooth and Claw. Why We Must Live With Predat
Colwell Mary 221 ₪Книга «Beak, Tooth and Claw. Why We Must Live With Predat». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 312. Автор: Colwell Mary. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Between the Sunset and the Sea. A View of 16 Briti
Ingram Simon 243 ₪Книга «Between the Sunset and the Sea. A View of 16 Briti». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2016. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 440. Автор: Ingram Simon. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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First Steps. How Walking Upright Made Us Human
DeSilva Jeremy 608 ₪Книга «First Steps. How Walking Upright Made Us Human». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 334. Автор: DeSilva Jeremy. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Frankel. The Greatest Racehorse of All Time
Cooper Simon 243 ₪Книга «Frankel. The Greatest Racehorse of All Time». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2021. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 354. Автор: Cooper Simon. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Girl With Dove. A Life Built By Books
Bayley Sally 221 ₪Книга «Girl With Dove. A Life Built By Books». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2019. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 270. Автор: Bayley Sally. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Give. Charity and the Art of Living Generously
MacFarlane-Barrow Magnus 221 ₪Книга «Give. Charity and the Art of Living Generously». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 248. Автор: MacFarlane-Barrow Magnus. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Conscious.
Godfrey-Smith Peter 465 ₪Книга «Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Conscious.». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2021. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 342. Автор: Godfrey-Smith Peter. Стандарт: 10. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Microadventures. Local Discoveries for Great Escap
Humphrey Alastair 376 ₪Книга «Microadventures. Local Discoveries for Great Escap». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2014. Переплет: Мягкий переплет с клапаном. Количество страниц: 256. Автор: Humphrey Alastair. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Mother of Invention. How Good Ideas Get Ignored
Marcal Katrine 221 ₪Книга «Mother of Invention. How Good Ideas Get Ignored». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 308. Автор: Marcal Katrine. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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My Broken Language. A Memoir
Hudes Quiara Alegria 221 ₪Книга «My Broken Language. A Memoir». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 318. Автор: Hudes Quiara Alegria. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Nehru. The Debates that Defined India
Singh Tripurdaman 443 ₪Книга «Nehru. The Debates that Defined India». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2021. Переплет: Твердый переплет. Количество страниц: 272. Автор: Singh Tripurdaman. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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On the Origin of Evolution
Gribbin John 487 ₪Книга «On the Origin of Evolution». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2021. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 288. Автор: Gribbin John. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Patrick OBrian. A Very Private Life’
Tolstoy Nikolai 349 ₪Книга «Patrick OBrian. A Very Private Life’». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2019. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 576. Автор: Tolstoy Nikolai. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Phosphorescence. On Awe, Wonder & Things
Baird Julia 332 ₪Книга «Phosphorescence. On Awe, Wonder & Things». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2020. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 317. Автор: Baird Julia. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
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Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux
Fletcher Tom 443 ₪Книга «Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux». Издательство: William Collins. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Твердый переплет. Количество страниц: 310. Автор: Fletcher Tom. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.
